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Trotsky and the Jews
by NEDAVA, Joseph
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 299pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper and small private ink stamp inside front cover, else a tight, fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, slightly rubbed at folds, Very Good+.
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A$46.39
From Broadway to Moscow
by [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] SMITH, Marjorie E
New York: Macaulay Co, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in black on front cover and spine; red top-stain; dustjacket; 317pp. Clean, tight copy, Very Good to Near Fine, in Very Good example of the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, with a few tiny losses at extremities and soil to lighter portions of rear panel. Perceptive, if somewhat breezy, memoir of a New York newspaperwoman in the Soviet Union. Smith was married to political cartoonist Ryan Walker, who was in Moscow to...
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A$193.29
Soviet Trade Unions (Vanguard Studies of Soviet Russia)
by Dunn, Robert W
New York: Vanguard Press, 1928. First Edition. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 238pp. Clean, tight and unmarked, about Fine; in the very scarce dustjacket, bright and unclipped, slightly faded on spine, still Near Fine. As with all Vanguard Press titles of this period, quite scarce in dustjacket. 12mo.
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A$115.97
A Moscow Diary
by [COMMUNISTS] PORTER, Anna
Chicago: Charles H Kerr, 1926. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 153pp. Fine copy in lightly rubbed and sun-faded dustwrapper with brief losses to spine ends (not approaching text); Very Good Plus. Positively glowing account of a 1925 tour of the Soviet Union, which the author calls "the most interesting place at the most interesting time of all history.
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A$154.63
Se si fa la Rivoluzione in Italia si morrà di fame
by [COMMUNISM - ITALIAN-AMERICANS] "EMME" (pseud)
New York: Libreria Rossa, N.d. [ca 1919?]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 24pp. Slight aging; mild creasing to spine; Very Good. Text entirely in Italian. Communist tract, issued shortly after the Russian revolution, calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy, with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders (to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie); and the "management of the new society through a free arrangement of...
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A$231.94
Von Oktober bis nach Brest-Litovsk. Die Geschichte der bolschevistischen November-Revolution (Sozialistische Arbeiter-Biliothek, No. 12)
by [COMMUNISM] TROTZKY, Leon [Trotsky]
Chicago: Deutschen Sprachgruppe der Socialist Party of the United States, 1919. First American Edition. 12mo (18cm). Printed card wrappers; 127pp. Very mild external wear; faint spotting to a few pages of text; Near Fine in the original wrappers. Probable first printing in America of Trotsky's account of the October revolution. English editions appeared the same year in London and Brooklyn, but it is likely that this German-language version, translated from the Russian by German-American scholar Jacob...
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A$309.26
The Socialized Mind as Seen in a Soviet Collective Farm (Life In Soviet Russia Series, No. 5)
by [SOVIET UNION - FREETHOUGHT] ANDERSON, Paul B (ed)
Paris: Russian Orthodox Theological Institute, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 45pp. Covers slightly soiled and creased; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good. One in a series of portraits of contemporary Soviet life published by the Russian Orthodox Theological Institute in the 1930s. The point of view, as one might imagine, is highly critical; the editorial board was comprised mostly of exiled Russian priests, and content focuses primarily upon the suppression of religion under...
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A$69.58
Briefe an Karl und Luise Kautsky (1896-1918)
by LUXEMBURG, Rosa; Luise Kautsky (ed)
Berlin: E. Laub, 1923. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Pattered wrappers (softcover, as issued); 235pp; portrait frontispiece; one folding facsimile. Slight wear; spine slightly skewed; Very Good. Text entirely in German.
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A$46.39
The Revolt on the Armoured Cruiser "Potemkin
by [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] KANATCHIKOV, A
New York: Workers Library Publishers, N.d. (ca 1930s). Small octavo (19.75cm.); original orange printed staplebound wrappers; 27pp. Fine.
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A$30.93
Four Sisters : The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
by Rappaport, Helen
London: Macmillan. 2014. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. xviii, 492 pages. The most authoritative account yet of the lives of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Like New. 1st Edition, 2nd printing. Hardback.
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A$30.00
Gebt der Wahrheit die Ehre! Ein Schicksalsbericht
by FAST, Karl
Winnipeg, Manitoba: Canzona Publishing, 1989. Second Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrapper; x,324pp.; illus. Light wear from handling, shallow crease to bottom fore-edge corner of upper wrapper, else Very Good or better. Account of the fate of the Mennonites in Stalin's Soviet Union. Text entirely in German.
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A$61.85
The Dilemmas of Lenin. Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution
by Ali, Tariq
London: Verso. 2017. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 373 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$22.00
[PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIAN SATIRE] Zanoza: Zhurn. khudozh. satiry [i.e. Splinter: A Magazine of Artistic Satire]
St. Petersburg: Izdatel' S. D. Novikov, 1906. #4, 5 of 1906 (2 issues of 14 printed). 8 pp.: ill. Ca. 24.1x38.7 cm. In original illustrated publisher's wrappers. Near fine. Horizontal creases in both issues. A rare example of the early Russian satirical magazine. In the wake of the 1905 Revolution, the Russian society witnessed the emergence of numerous satirical periodicals, among which Zanoza was arguably one of the most popular. The magazine served as a successor to the weekly satirical edition...
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A$1,005.10
To Russia and Return
by [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] TERPENNING, Walter A
N.p. [Evansville, IN?]: Privately Published, N.d. [ca 1920]. Sole edition. Octavo. Blue ribbed cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; portrait frontispiece and nine inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A tight, Near Fine copy in the original cloth. Terpenning, a Michigan-trained sociologist, traveled to Russia in 1918 as a representative of the Y.M.C.A. but found his work interrupted by the ongoing civil war. His memoir covers a period of about two years spent among peasants...
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The Railwaymen's Union of the U.S.S.R. and Railway Transport to the 10th Anniversary of the October Revolution
by [SOVIET UNION]]
Moscow: Central Committeeof the U.S.S.R. Railwaymen's Union, 1928. First American Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 96pp; illus. Text rather darkened, with a bit of brittleness at margins; still a tight, complete copy, Good or better.
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A$69.58
Unemployed Councils in St. Petersburg in 1906
by MALYSHEV, Sergei
New York: Workers Library, 1931. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 51pp. Mild external wear and soil; internally clean and unmarked; VG. Bolshevik history series, "Prepared under the supervision of the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow.
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A$23.19
Romantic Revolutionary A Biography of John Reed
by Rosenstone, Robert A
New York: Alfred A Knopf. 1975. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light creae to lower front edge of DJ. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. xiv, 430, xiii pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$28.00
Socialism Versus Bolshevism
by ONEAL, James
New York: Rand School Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 27pp. Minor toning along wrapper extremities, else Very Good.
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A$30.93
The Russian Revolt: Its Causes, Condition, and Prospects
by NOBLE, Edmund
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1885. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); original grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine, grey glazed endpapers; 269,[1],16pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, especially spine ends, faint bookseller rubberstamp to p. [3], else Very Good and sound.
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A$46.39
Krasnyi podarok belomu panu ("A Red Present to the White Landlords")
by [GRAPHICS & ORIGINAL ART][POSTERS][RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] MOOR, D.S. (Dmitrij Stachievic)
Moscow: Literature Edition RVSR, (1920). Lithograph in three colors; printed recto-only on thin lithographic paper; 83cm x 60cm (ca 32" x 24"). Small (1") loss to left margin (away from image); darkening and toning to extremities; image clean, red portions very slightly faded, as usual; grade B+/B. A celebrated work by one of the major propaganda artists of the revolutionary period, produced for the Polish campaign of 1920. Pictured in Stephen White, The Bolshevik Poster, p.98. Rare (only one copy noted...
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A$3,092.60
Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution
by GLEASON, Abbott, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites, eds
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [1985]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],304pp. Jacket extremities very lightly rubbed with a couple miniscule closed tears, else Fine. Forms part of the series "Studies of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies" [sic] at the Wilson Center.
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A$77.32
Etika. Tom 1. Proiskhozhdenie i razvitie nravsvennosti [Ethics. Volume 1. The Origin and Development of Morality]
by [ANARCHISM] KROPOTKIN, P.A. [Pyotr Alexeyevich]
Niu Iork [New York]: Izdatelskoi Komissii pri Rabochem Soiuze "Samoobrazovanie"], 1923. First American Edition. Second edition in Russian, and first American Edition. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; [5], 6-259, [2], iv, + [8]pp publisher's ads. Minimal external wear; internally clean and unmarked; a Near Fine copy. "Tom I" all published. First American edition of what Kropotkin's editor Lebedev called "the swan song of the great humanitarian scientist and...
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A$1,314.36
The Russian Revolution
by LUXEMBURG, Rosa (introduction by Bertram D. Wolfe)q
New York: Workers Age Publishers, [1940]. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; xii, 56pp. Mild external wear and fading; Very Good. First Worker's Age edition, with a foreword by Bertram Wolfe.
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A$30.93
Unemployed Councils in St. Petersburg in 1906
by [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] MALYSHEV, Sergei
New York: Workers Library, 1931. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 51pp. Minor wear; Very Good. On the role of unemployed councils in the Russian Revolution. Clearly intended to provide an analogue to current conditions in the Great Depression.
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A$30.93
The First Bolshevik: A Political Biography of Peter Tkachev
by WEEKS, Albert L
New Haven: New York University Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 221pp. Includes bibliography. Fine copy in unworn jacket.
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A$30.93